Ana Ivanović

Ana Ivanović
Ivanović 2010 in Stuttgart
Nation:	Serbia
Birthday:	November 6, 1987
Size:	184 cm
1st professional season:	2003
Resignation:	2016
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Prize money:	$ 15,510,787
singles
Career record:	480: 225
Career title:	15 WTA , 5 ITF
Highest ranking:	1 (June 9, 2008)
Weeks as No. 1:	12
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	30:35
Highest ranking:	50 (September 25, 2006)
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Ana Ivanović ( Serbian - Cyrillic Ана Ивановић ; born November 6, 1987 in Belgrade , SFR Yugoslavia ) is a former Serbian tennis player . She won the French Open in 2008 and led the world rankings for twelve weeks in the same year .

Career

Ivanović started playing tennis at the age of five after watching Monica Seles play on television . Her mother Dragana (lawyer) and her father Miroslav (businessman) then enrolled her in a tennis school. During the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia , she trained in a converted swimming pool in the Belgrade sports center. At the age of 14, she moved to Switzerland with her mother because of the better training conditions. The Basel businessman Dan Holzmann became their manager. Ivanović initially did not have a permanent coach, she worked with Sven Groeneveld , among others .

2003–2005: Rapid rise to the top of the world

In August 2003, she began her professional career by participating in ITF tournaments. Her first major success was reaching the junior women's final at Wimbledon , which she lost to Kateryna Bondarenko . She won 26 games and five titles in a row at ITF tournaments. Her first big appearance on the WTA Tour was a match against Venus Williams in October 2004 in Zurich , which she lost 6: 7 ¹¹ and 6: 7 ⁶ despite several set balls . A week later she reached the quarter-finals in Luxembourg . It ended the year at number 97 in the world rankings, at the beginning of the year it was still at number 708.

In 2005 she surprised with a final victory over Melinda Czink in Canberra . Further victories, including against top ten players at the time such as Svetlana Kuznetsova , Nadja Petrowa and Wera Swonarewa , followed. At the French Open she defeated Amélie Mauresmo before she was eliminated by Petrowa in the quarterfinals. In the course of the year, despite minor injuries, she reached the semi-finals in Zurich and Linz and ended the year in 16th place and thus for the first time among the top 20 players on the tour.

2006–2007: Successful Grand Slam tournaments and top ten

2006 at the US Open

At the Australian Open , Ivanović failed in the second round 3: 6, 5: 7 against the then doubles specialist Samantha Stosur . At the French Open she made it to round three, where she was defeated by Anastassija Myskina , the 2004 French Open winner, with 2: 6 and 3: 6.

At Wimbledon she met world number one and later winner Mauresmo in the round of 16, to whom she lost 3: 6, 4: 6. In the preparatory tournament for the US Open in Montreal , she defeated Martina Hingis , then number 9 in the world, 6: 2 and 6: 3 and secured the second tournament victory of her career. As a secret favorite, she was eliminated from the US Open in the third round against Serena Williams (2: 6, 4: 6). Then she failed at the tournaments in Bali and Luxembourg in round one. After a break of almost four weeks from the tournament, she lost in the quarter-finals in Linz against the US Open winner Maria Sharapova 6-7 , 5-7. At the end of the year she was in 14th place in the world rankings.

In 2007 she won the WTA tournament in Berlin with a final victory over Kuznetsova . At the French Open she reached the final of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time with a semi-final victory over Sharapova (6: 2, 6: 1), which she lost to Justine Henin with 1: 6, 2: 6. In the Wimbledon semifinals she lost to Venus Williams (2: 6, 4: 6). In August she won the WTA tournament in Los Angeles and climbed to fourth place in the world rankings. In the second round of the US Open , she failed again to Venus Williams (4: 6, 2: 6).

2008: World number one and French Open winner

2008 in Indian Wells

In early 2008, Ivanović reached the final of the Australian Open for the first time , which she lost in straight sets to Sharapova. In the world rankings, however, it moved up to second place. At the Dubai Tennis Championships she was in the quarterfinals, in which she was defeated by Jelena Dementjewa. In Indian Wells , she celebrated one of her greatest successes to date with a final victory over world number three, Svetlana Kuznetsova. A week later in Miami , she was eliminated against former world number one Lindsay Davenport in the third round 4-6, 2-6.

With her victory in the semi-finals of the French Open on June 5 against Jelena Janković (6: 4, 3: 6, 6: 4) it was clear that she would move to the top of the world rankings on June 9, 2008. She became the second Serb after Monica Seles to be number 1 in women's tennis. On June 7th, she crowned her good performance in Paris with her first Grand Slam title. At Wimbledon she was eliminated in the third round against Zheng Jie (1: 6, 4: 6). Even at the WTA tournament in Montreal , she did not get past the third round (with an injury to her right thumb). She had to cancel her participation in the Olympic Games in Beijing due to an injury. On August 11, 2008, she gave up the world rankings to her compatriot Janković, but took over again a week later.

Postage stamp on the occasion of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, which Ivanović was unable to attend

At the US Open , she failed in the second round to Julie Coin (3: 6, 6: 4, 3: 6). In the previous lap, she had a lot of trouble with her three-set victory over Wera Duschewina . Due to the early retirement, she finally gave the lead in the ranking to Serena Williams. On October 26th, Ivanović won her third title of the year in Linz. She qualified for the WTA Tour Championships , but due to illness she had to give up there after the second match.

2009

Fifth in the world rankings, she only reached the third round at the Australian Open , in which she lost to Alissa Kleibanova in three sets. In February, she signed a new coach with Craig Kardon. With his support, she reached the quarter-finals in Dubai, in which she failed to Serena Williams. She lost her first final of the year in Indian Wells as the defending champion against Vera Swonarjowa 6: 7, 2: 6. In Miami she was eliminated in the third round against Ágnes Szávay . At both the French Open and Wimbledon , she failed in the round of 16, at the US Open she did not get past the first round. Immediately afterwards, Ivanović declared that she would take a break first. Only a month later she was back on the square; in Tokyo she was defeated by Lucie Šafářová in the first round. She had to cancel the tournament in Beijing due to a respiratory disease. She finished the season in 21st place.

2010

At her annual tournament in Brisbane, she lost to Justine Henin in the semi-finals. At the Grand Slam tournament in Melbourne , she was eliminated in the second round against Gisela Dulko . At the Premier 5 tournament in Rome she lost in the semifinals to the eventual tournament winner María José Martínez Sánchez in two sets. At the second Grand Slam tournament in Paris , she failed in round two, this time to Alissa Kleibanova. At Wimbledon , she failed in the opening match against Shahar Peer . She temporarily slipped to 64th in the world rankings, her worst position since 2005. In Cincinnati , she had to give up in the semifinals against Kim Clijsters because of a foot injury suffered at the beginning of the first set. She celebrated her first tournament victory in two years in Linz in October, where she won the title for the second time. At short notice for the injured Serena Williams, she won the final against Patty Schnyder with 6: 1 and 6: 2. On November 7th she ended the mixed year with a tournament victory at the last WTA tournament of the year in Bali , where she defeated Alissa Kleibanowa 6: 2, 7: 6 ⁵ in the final .

From February to October 2010 Ivanović was trained by Heinz Günthardt .

2011

At the Australian Open and the French Open, she was eliminated in the first round against unseeded players. At the grass tournament in Birmingham she reached the semi-finals as number 2 on the seeding list, but where Daniela Hantuchová proved to be the stronger. In Eastbourne promoted them in the opening match Julia Goerges with 6: 4, 6: 3 from the tournament. At Wimbledon she failed in the third round to Petra Cetkovská . In Carlsbad , she stormed into the semi-finals, where she was defeated by the top seeded Vera Swonaryova. In Toronto, at the US Open and in Tokyo, she was in the last sixteen, she was eliminated in two sets against Roberta Vinci , Marija Kirilenko and Serena Williams. In Beijing she had to give up her quarter-final match against Radwańska after falling behind in sets. In Bali she won another title; after defeating Vinci and Petrowa, she was also successful in straight sets in the final against Anabel Medina Garrigues . With this she finished 22nd at the end of the season.

2012

At the Australian Open, she reached the round of 16 for the first time since 2008, which brought her back into the top 20 in the world rankings. In Indian Wells, she moved into the semi-finals, but had to give up against Marija Sharapova due to injury. In the Fed Cup semi-final against Russia, she contributed to the overall victory in an individual, which Serbia reached the final for the first time. In the following tournaments she never got beyond the last sixteen. She also failed in the third round of the French Open , and Wimbledon ended in the round of 16. At the Olympic Games in London she was also eliminated in the round of 16, she was defeated by Kim Clijsters in two sets. At the US Open she made it to the quarterfinals, but had no chance against Serena Williams. A bigger success she achieved with the semi-finals in Moscow . The Fed Cup final against the Czech Republic ended in defeat; Ivanović scored the only point for Serbia with a win against Petra Kvitová. She finished the year in 12th place in the world rankings.

2013

2013 at the tournament in Carlsbad

At the Australian Open , as in the previous year, she reached the second round, which she lost to number four in the world rankings, Agnieszka Radwańska , with 2: 6, 4: 6. Until the tournament in Stuttgart she never got past the last sixteen. In Stuttgart, the quarter-finals against Marija Sharapova were the final destination. In Madrid she reached the semi-finals, in which she lost again to Sharapova. In Roland Garros she reached the second round again, but for the third time this season the winner was Agnieszka Radwańska. At Wimbledon , she failed in the second round in two sets to Eugenie Bouchard . She reached her second semifinals of the year at the Southern California Open in Carlsbad. At the US Open she reached the round of 16, which she lost to future finalist Wiktoryja Asaranka. In Linz she moved into a final at a WTA tournament for the first time since 2011, which she lost to Angelique Kerber. For the WTA Tournament of Champions , she received a wildcard despite the lack of a WTA title. She survived the group stage with wins over Samantha Stosur and Zwetana Pironkowa , but had to admit defeat to Simona Halep in the semifinals . She finished the year in 16th place in the world rankings.

Since 2014

2014 in Indian Wells

In her opening tournament in Auckland , she won her first title in two years. At the Australian Open she reached the second round, in which she defeated world number one Serena Williams 4: 6, 6: 3, 6: 3. It was her first win against a world number one since 2007 (then against Sharapova in Tokyo). In the quarterfinals, however, she had to admit defeat to Eugenie Bouchard in three sets. In Monterrey she defeated Magdaléna Rybáriková and Caroline Wozniacki, among others , to win her second title of the year and the 13th title of her career. In Stuttgart she reached her third final of the year, which she lost to Sharapova despite 6: 3, 3: 1 lead. In Rome defeated Sharapova (6: 1, 6: 4) and reached the semi-finals, which she lost to Serena Williams. At the French Open , she was eliminated in the third round against Lucie Šafářová. She secured her third title of the year and first premier title in six years at the grass tournament in Birmingham when she defeated Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová in the final. At Wimbledon she was eliminated in three sets against last year's finalist Sabine Lisicki in the third round . In Stanford she returned the favor to Lisicki and reached the quarterfinals, which she lost against the eventual winner Serena Williams 6: 2, 3: 6, 5: 7. In Cincinnati she moved into the final after victories over Kuznetsova and Sharapova, among others. Again she was left behind against Serena Williams. Due to the good results, however, she made the jump back into the top ten.

From July 2014, Ivanović was trained by Dejan Petrović, from whom she separated again in May 2015. From the 2015 French Open , at which Ivanović reached a Grand Slam semi-final for the first time since 2008, Mats Merkel was her trainer. On December 28, 2016, she announced the end of her career.

Tournament victories

singles

2008 at the Australian Open

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	January 15, 2005	Canberra	WTA Tier V	Hard court	Melinda Czink	7: 5, 6: 1
2.	August 20, 2006	Montreal	WTA Tier I	Hard court	Martina Hingis	6: 2, 6: 3
3.	May 13, 2007	Berlin	WTA Tier I	sand	Svetlana Kuznetsova	3: 6, 6: 4, 7: 6 4
4th	August 12, 2007	los Angeles	WTA Tier II	Hard court	Nadia Petrova	7: 5, 6: 4
5.	September 30, 2007	Luxembourg	WTA Tier II	Hard court (hall)	Daniela Hantuchová	3: 6, 6: 4, 6: 4
6th	March 23, 2008	Indian Wells	WTA Tier I	Hard court	Svetlana Kuznetsova	6: 4, 6: 3
7th	June 7, 2008	French Open	Grand Slam	sand	Dinara Safina	6: 4, 6: 3
8th.	October 26, 2008	Linz	WTA Tier II	Hard court (hall)	Vera Swonaryova	6: 2, 6: 1
9.	17th October 2010	Linz	WTA International	Hard court (hall)	Patty Schnyder	6: 1, 6: 2
10.	November 7, 2010	Bali	WTA Tournament of Champions	Hard court (hall)	Alissa Kleibanova	6: 2, 7: 6
11.	November 6, 2011	Bali	WTA Tournament of Champions	Hard court (hall)	Anabel Medina Garrigues	6: 3, 6: 0
12.	4th January 2014	Auckland	WTA International	Hard court	Venus Williams	6: 2, 5: 7, 6: 4
13.	April 6, 2014	Monterrey	WTA International	Hard court	Jovana Jakšić	6: 2, 6: 1
14th	15th June 2014	Birmingham	WTA Premier	race	Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová	6: 3, 6: 2
15th	September 21, 2014	Tokyo	WTA Premier	Hard court	Caroline Wozniacki	6: 2, 7: 6 2

Career statistics and tournament record

singles

competition	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	total
Australian Open	-	-	3	2	3	F.	3	2	1	AF	AF	VF	1	3	0
French Open	-	-	VF	3	F.	S.	AF	2	1	3	AF	3	HF	3	1
Wimbledon	-	-	3	AF	HF	3	AF	1	3	AF	2	3	2	1	0
US Open	-	-	2	3	AF	2	1	AF	AF	VF	AF	2	1	1	0
Tour Championships	-	-	-	-	HF	RR	-	-	-	-	-	RR	-	-	0
Doha	na or a. K.					AF	na or a. K.			2	AF	2	a. K.	-	0
Dubai	na or a. K.						VF	-	1	na or a. K.			AF	a. K.	0
Indian Wells	-	-	-	VF	AF	S.	F.	1	VF	HF	3	3	3	3	1
Miami	-	-	VF	AF	2	3	3	3	AF	AF	AF	AF	3	3	0
Charleston	-	-	-	-	AF	-	other category								0
Rome	-	-	AF	-	-	2	AF	HF	2	AF	1	HF	2	2	0
Madrid	na or a. K.						-	2	1	AF	HF	VF	AF	2	0
Berlin	-	-	1	1	S.	HF	na or a. K.								1
San Diego	a. K.	-	-	AF	-	na or a. K.									0
Cincinnati	na or a. K.						2	HF	2	-	1	F.	VF	1	0
Montreal / Toronto	-	-	AF	S.	2	AF	2	-	AF	2	AF	2	VF	-	1
Tokyo	-	-	-	AF	F.	AF	1	2	AF	2	AF	other category			0
Wuhan	not carried out											1	AF	-	0
Zurich	-	AF	HF	-	AF	not carried out									0
Beijing	na or a. K.						-	VF	VF	AF	2	HF	HF	-	0
Moscow	-	-	-	-	-	AF	other category								0
Olympic games	n / A	-	not carried out			-	not carried out			AF	not carried out			1	0
Fed Cup	-	-	-	K1	-	PO	PO	PO	PO	F.	PO	-	-	-	0
Tournament participation	5	10	16	19th	20th	18th	14th	20th	20th	19th	22nd	22nd	19th	16	240
Finals reached	1	5	1	1	5	4th	1	2	1	0	1	6th	1	0	29
Title won	0	5	1	1	3	3	0	2	1	0	0	4th	0	0	20th
Hard court wins / defeats	1: 1	11: 3	26: 8	24:11	23:10	26:12	16:10	27:14	24:13	25:14	28:17	38:12	20:13	8:10	297: 148
Sand victories / defeats	11: 4	10: 1	2: 1	4: 3	16: 3	10: 2	5: 2	5: 4	2: 4	7: 5	11: 4	13: 4	7: 4	5: 4	108: 45
Turf wins / defeats	0-0	0: 1	9: 4	5: 2	6: 2	2: 1	3: 2	1: 2	6: 3	5: 2	1: 2	7: 1	1: 2	2: 2	48:26
Carpet victories / defeats	0-0	16: 0	3: 1	2: 2	6: 3	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	27: 6
Overall wins / losses	12: 5	37: 5	40:14	35:18	51:18	38:15	24:14	33:20	32:20	37:21	40:23	58:17	28:19	15:16	480: 225
World ranking points	11	375	1551	1053	3461	3457	2067	2600	2260	2900	2850	4820	2645	938	N / A
Year-end position	705	97	16	14th	4th	5	22nd	17th	22nd	13	16	5	16	65	N / A

Explanation of symbols: S = tournament victory; F, HF, VF, AF = entry into the final / semi-finals / quarter-finals / round of 16; 1, 2, 3 = elimination in the 1st / 2nd / 3rd main round; RR = Round Robin (group stage); na = not carried out; a. K. = other category; PO (playoff) = promotion and relegation round in the Fed Cup; K1, K2, K3 = participation in continental groups I, II, III in the Fed Cup.

Note : These statistics take into account all results individually, as stated on the WTA page. Only WTA tournaments of the category Tier I (until 2008) and the WTA tournaments of the categories Premier Mandatory and Premier 5 (since 2009) are shown.

Double

competition	2005	2006	2007	2008-2010	2011	Balance sheet	Career
Australian Open	-	-	-	-	-	0-0	-
French Open	1	-	1	-	-	0: 2	1
Wimbledon	AF	1	1	-	2	3: 4	AF
US Open	-	AF	-	-	-	2: 1	AF

World ranking positions at the end of the year

year	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
singles	705	97	16	14th	4th	5	22nd	17th	22nd	13	16	5	16	65
Double	-	-	133	52	916	-	-	-	160	-	-	521	574	411

Personal

During the Australian Open 2008 she wrote a daily column for the Melbourne newspaper The Age . On September 8, 2007, she was next to Jelena Jankovic , Aleksandar Đorđević and Emir Kusturica for UNICEF appointed -Botschafterin for Serbia.

In 2013 she had a brief relationship with the Serbian national basketball player Ivan Paunić and prior to that for two years with the Australian professional golfer Adam Scott .

Since July 12, 2016 Ivanović has been married to the former German soccer player Bastian Schweinsteiger . The couple have two sons.

Web links

Commons : Ana Ivanović  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• WTA profile Ana Ivanović (English)
• ITF profile Ana Ivanović (English)
• Fed Cup Statistics for Ana Ivanović (English)
• Ana Ivanović in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Website of Ana Ivanović (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ivanović grows into role of Australia's adopted daughter The Independent, January 25, 2008
2. ↑ Kardon on trial trainer from Ivanovic SID / Handelsblatt, February 11, 2009
3. ↑ Tennis: Ivanovic takes a break, Focus Online, September 3, 2009
4. ↑ Ana's Season Ends Sony Ericsson WTA Tour, October 3, 2009
5. ^ Ana Ivanovic appoints new coach Dejan Petrovic. In: www.si.com. July 19, 2014, accessed January 5, 2016 . 
6. ^ Ivanovic no longer working with coach Dejan Petrovic. In: www.tennis.com. May 7, 2015, accessed January 5, 2016 . 
7. ↑ FORMER NO. 1, FRENCH OPEN CHAMPION ANA IVANOVIC ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT. In: tennis.com. December 28, 2016, accessed December 28, 2016 . 
8. ^ Ana Ivanović new UNICEF National Ambassador for Serbia ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) September 14, 2007
9. ↑ Ivan Paunić očajan: Ana me je pozvala i samo rekla “Ovo je kraj” !.
10. ↑ Star sporting duo Adam Scott and Ana Ivanovic split ahead of Aussie tour. In: The Telegraph. January 11, 2013, accessed October 17, 2013 . 
11. ↑ http://www.focus.de/
12. ↑ Bastian Schweinsteiger and Ana Ivanovic: "Welcome to the world, our little one". In: Spiegel Online . March 19, 2018, accessed June 9, 2018 . 
13. ↑ Bastian Schweinsteiger and Ana Ivanovic: The baby is here! Retrieved September 8, 2019 .